Max Lucado quote: "You will be at your best forever, Even now you have good moments. Occasional glimpses of your heavenly self. When you change your baby's diaper, forgive your boss's temper, tolerate your spouse's moodiness, you display traces of saintliness."

Be a doer, not a stewer.
MAX LUCADO

One of the greatest gifts we can give people is the hope that their death is nothing to fear - you k...
MAX LUCADO

Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is ri...
MAX LUCADO

I Choose Love...
No occasion justifies hatred; no injustice warrants bitterness. I choose love....
MAX LUCADO

The key is this: Meet today's problems with today's strength. Don't start tackling tomorrow's proble...
MAX LUCADO

A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.
MAX LUCADO

There is a time for risky love. There is a time for extravagant gestures. There is a time to pour ou...
MAX LUCADO

The meaning of life. The wasted years of life. The poor choices of life. God answers the mess of lif...
MAX LUCADO

We are Jesus Christ's; we belong to him. But even more, we are increasingly him. He moves in and...
MAX LUCADO

You change your life by changing your heart.
MAX LUCADO

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
MAX LUCADO

God is not troubled by one who is conservative or liberal, and He certainly never inclines His ear t...
MAX LUCADO

I was raised in the greatest of homes... just a really great dad, and I miss him so much... he was a...
MAX LUCADO

Grace is God as heart surgeon, cracking open your chest, removing your heart - poisoned as it is wit...
MAX LUCADO

For years I thought my assignment or the Church's assignment was to articulate the Gospel and no...
MAX LUCADO

A season of suffering is a small assignment when compared to the reward. Rather than begrudge your p...
MAX LUCADO

The apostle Paul never seemed to exhaust the topic of grace - what makes us think we can? He just ke...
MAX LUCADO

My first encounters with faith came about the time I was a Boy Scout, at about 14 or 15. I made the ...
MAX LUCADO

The idea of a spiritual heart transplant is a vivid image to me; once you have the heart of somebody...
MAX LUCADO

What we realize is number one, people want to know what the Bible says. In their heart, they want to...
MAX LUCADO

God's glory is the big news of the Bible, and my desire is that it would be all about me, but re...
MAX LUCADO

Become a worry-slapper. Treat frets like mosquitoes. Do you procrastinate when a bloodsucking bug li...
MAX LUCADO

Well, I think the main message is there is more to your story. There is more than what happens betwe...
MAX LUCADO

God will use whatever he wants to display his glory. Heavens and stars. History and nations. People ...
MAX LUCADO

You know people just assume, 'Well, all my life I'll be a worrier.' That doesn't hav...
MAX LUCADO

Want to know the coolest thing about the coming? Not that the One who played marbles with the stars ...
MAX LUCADO

Initially, when I first became a Christian and got into ministry, my thought was that God existed to...
MAX LUCADO

I get one hour, really 25 minutes in a sermon on a weekend, to combat all the hours of the week that...
MAX LUCADO

A nation is blessed when it has godly leaders.
MAX LUCADO

You are the only you God made... God made you and broke the mold.
MAX LUCADO

If we think that this life is all there is to life, then there is no interpretation of our problems,...
MAX LUCADO

God meets daily needs daily. Not weekly or annually. He will give you what you need when it is neede...
MAX LUCADO

What the new mate, sports car, or unexpected check could never do, Christ says, "I Can." You'll love...
MAX LUCADO

To lead the orchestra, you have to turn your back on the crowd.
MAX LUCADO

I choose gentleness... Nothing is won by force. I choose to be gentle. If I raise my voice may it be...
MAX LUCADO

How can a person deal with anxiety? You might try what one fellow did. He worried so much that he de...
MAX LUCADO

Jesus tends to his people individually. He personally sees to our needs. We all receive Jesus' touch...
MAX LUCADO

We may speak about a place where there are no tears, no death, no fear, no night; but those are just...
MAX LUCADO

Lower your expectations of earth. This isn't heaven, so don't expect it to be.
MAX LUCADO

Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realising you were the prisoner!
MAX LUCADO

God loves you right where you are but he doesn't want to leave you there.
MAX LUCADO

There's something about compassion that causes society to say, 'We're going to take this...
MAX LUCADO

You will never forgive anyone more than God has already forgiven you.
MAX LUCADO

God rewards those who seek Him. Not those who seek doctrine of religion or systems or creeds. Many s...
MAX LUCADO

God wants us to know we are saved, for saved people are dangerous people, willing to face off with t...
MAX LUCADO

If we can understand that death is not the end but is really a transition into the next life, the gr...
MAX LUCADO

When we see death, we see disaster. When Jesus sees death, he sees deliverance!
MAX LUCADO

The wizard [of Oz] says look inside yourself and find self. God says look inside yourself and find [...
MAX LUCADO

If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it. If He had a wallet, your photo would be in i...
MAX LUCADO

Be a child again. Flirt. Giggle. Dip your cookies in your milk. Take a nap. Say you're sorry if you ...
MAX LUCADO

Fear creates a form of spiritual amnesia
MAX LUCADO

The Bible is the story of two gardens: Eden and Gethsemane. In the first, Adam took a fall. In the s...
MAX LUCADO

My book centers in on the New Testament, the goal being to help a person who wants to understand the...
MAX LUCADO

One of the things I discover a lot in marriage counseling is the husband or wife trying to get their...
MAX LUCADO

If you aren’t you, we don’t get you.
MAX LUCADO

You weren't an accident. You weren't mass produced. You aren't an assembly-line product. You were de...
MAX LUCADO

Sentences are like just caught fish. Spunky today, stinky tomorrow.
MAX LUCADO

In the great orchestra we call life, you have an instrument and a song, and you owe it to God to pla...
MAX LUCADO

Why did God leave us one tale after another of wounded lives being restored? So we could be grateful...
MAX LUCADO

For faith with no effort is no faith at all.
MAX LUCADO

Just when the womb gets too old for babies, Sarai gets pregnant. Just when the failure is too great ...
MAX LUCADO

The stone was moved—not for Jesus—but for the women; not so Jesus could come out, but so the wom...
MAX LUCADO

Our prayers may be awkward. Our attempts may be feeble. But since the power of prayer is in the one ...
MAX LUCADO

Woman, where are they? Has no one judged you guilty?"
She answers "No one, sir."
Then Jesu...
MAX LUCADO

God is fond of you. If He had a wallet, your photo would be in it. If He had a refrigerator, your pi...
MAX LUCADO

A few songs with Him might change the way you sing. Forever.
MAX LUCADO

When my daughter was a toddler, I used to take her to a park not far from our apartment. One day as ...
MAX LUCADO

Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realising you were the prisoner!
MAX LUCADO

What I urge is that you learn to master your life by living each day in a day-tight compartment and ...
MAX LUCADO

Forgive and give as if it were your last opportunity. Love like there's no tomorrow, and if tomorrow...
MAX LUCADO

God leads us. God will do the right thing at the right time. And what a difference that makes.
MAX LUCADO

The secret of loving is living loved.
MAX LUCADO

At the beginning of every act of faith, there is often a seed of fear. For great acts of faith are s...
MAX L. LUCADO

There is a canyon of difference between doing your best to glorify God and doing whatever it takes t...
MAX L. LUCADO

Go to the effort. Invest the time. Write the letter. Make the apology. Take the trip. Purchase the g...
MAX L. LUCADO

It's music. It's supposed to be fun and inspirational. You have to be inspired. If I did it ...
MAX MARTIN

People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo...
MAX EASTMAN

Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation.
MAX EUWE

These censorship people think something is going to promote behavior in people.
MAX CANNON

I just don't want anyone messing around with my pure smoking pleasure.
MAX CANNON

It is not true that good can only follow from good and evil only from evil, but that often the oppos...
MAX WEBER

The sensitive ear of the musician detects a certain musical note in every city which is different fr...
MAX HEINDEL

I saw my first two Broadway shows when I was 4 years old, 'The Lion King' and 'Beauty an...
MAX SCHNEIDER

I will always desire to play with Bruce Springsteen. He's the most inspirational, most dedicated...
MAX WEINBERG

The nation is burdened with the heavy curse on those who come afterwards. The generation before us w...
MAX WEBER

The men of the future will yet fight their way to many a liberty that we do not even miss.
MAX STIRNER

Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his po...
MAX WEBER

One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of ...
MAX WEBER

I am under the impression that in nine out of ten cases I deal with windbags who do not fully realiz...
MAX WEBER

My sister died and my mum was really distant, as you do - you don't expect your offspring to die...
MAX WALKER

The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime.
MAX STIRNER

The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.
MAX BEERBOHM

To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other peo...
MAX BEERBOHM

I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul
MAX BEERBOHM

Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards.
MAX WEBER

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.
MAX KAUFFMAN

We call those works of art concrete that came into being on the basis of their inherent resources an...
MAX BILL

The priest persuades a humble people to endure their hard lot, a politician urges them to rebel agai...
MAX PERCY

The noblest men of all ages, Christian saints of the most transcendent spirituality have attained th...
MAX HEINDEL

My first girlfriend broke up with me on a yellow legal pad. After she picked me up from the airport ...
MAX WINKLER

We live in a society that blames everybody else for what's wrong.
MAX CANNON

You are a child of the universe,
no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right ...
MAX EHRMANN

A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He ex...
MAX FRISCH

Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it. -Max Frisch.
MAX FRISCH

The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime.
MAX STIRNER

Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as...
MAX EHRMANN

Only by strict specialization can the scientific worker become fully conscious, for once and perhaps...
MAX WEBER

A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride.
MAX LERNER

We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we c...
MAX LERNER

He'd basically fallen in love with her on the spot. Well, no, that wasn't accurate; that implied a b...
MAX BARRY

Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call ci...
MAX LERNER

Music is the soul of language.
MAX HEINDEL

The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by...
MAX WEBER

I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.
MAX LERNER

A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off towa...
MAX EASTMAN

No sociologist should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quit...
MAX WEBER

Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.
MAX EASTMAN

Language is the Rubicon that divides man from beast.
MAX MULLER

Why did I want to win? because I didn't want to lose!
MAX SCHMELLING

It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meanin...
MAX FRISCH

The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolut...
MAX LERNER

A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke.
MAX EASTMAN

When it's third and ten, you can take the milk drinkers and I'll take the whiskey drinkers every tim...
MAX MCGEE

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.
MAX JACOB

There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.
MAX BEERBOHM

I was a modest, good-humored boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
MAX BEERBOHM

Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.
MAX LERNER

When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.
MAX LERNER

Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grand...
MAX LERNER

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
MAX BEERBOHM

It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is l...
MAX BEERBOHM

Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.
MAX FRISCH

To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other peopl...
MAX BEERBOHM

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.
MAX BEERBOHM

Mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.
MAX BEERBOHM

Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.
MAX BEERBOHM

She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.
MAX BEERBOHM

Money is something you got to make in case you don't die.
MAX ASNAS

The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad...
MAX BEERBOHM

Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial...
MAX BEERBOHM

To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than m...
MAX BEERBOHM

Nobody ever died of laughter.
MAX BEERBOHM

If you can't get a job as a pianist in a brothel you become a royal reporter.
MAX HASTINGS

If you are losing a tug-of-war with a tiger, give him the rope before he gets to your arm. You can a...
MAX GUNTHER

How many charming talents have been spoiled by the instilled desire to do 'important' work! Some peo...
MAX BEERBOHM

The loveliest face in all the world will not please you if you see it suddenly eye to eye, at a dist...
MAX BEERBOHM

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.
MAX EASTMAN

It is true that when we take chances, we stand to lose. But it is also true that we will never win a...
MAX GUNTHER

The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.
MAX BEERBOHM

Conflict is inevitable, but combat is optional.
MAX LUCADE

We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us cease...
MAX LERNER

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What...
MAX STIRNER

I know of no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spir...
MAX BEERBOHM

It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.
MAX BEERBOHM

The scientific theory I like the best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost ai...
MAX BORN

People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.
MAX BEERBOHM

Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. What puts man in a higher state of evolution is that ...
MAX EASTMAN

Then I heard this young veteran on TV speaking about the war. It was John Kerry. He put everything I...
MAX CLELAND

The Bible tells me that no greater love has a man than to lay down his life for his friends. John Ke...
MAX CLELAND

The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all...
MAX BORN

It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meani...
MAX FRISCH

Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
MAX FRISCH

Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles...respect for human life, the punishment of...
MAX NORDAU

Ladies, let me give you some advice. You can throw all your stupid fucking chick-lit, self-help, why...
TUCKER MAX

Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
MAX FRISCH

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, b...
MAX PLANCK

The American woman is more stylish than any other in the world. She understands the power of good st...
MAX AZRIA

The '60s were an amazing time.
PETER MAX

Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordinati...
MAX WEBER

I love Jonathan Adler but more importantly I love throws. To clarify, a throw is not to be confused ...
MAX GREENFIELD

I've got to restructure all my personal life now in order to accommodate public service, which i...
MAX BURNS

I'd say the real turn in my career came when I did the Dolce & Gabbana International Ad Camp...
MAX SCHNEIDER

Even in modern art, artists have used methods based on calculation, inasmuch as these elements, alon...
MAX BILL

Kindness and a generous spirit go a long way. And a sense of humor. It's like medicine - very he...
MAX IRONS

I had a happy marriage and a nice wife. I accomplished everything you can. What more can you want?
MAX SCHMELING

Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.
MAX EASTMAN

A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but r...
MAX PLANCK

To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.
MAX BEERBOHM

Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of...
MAX WEBER

Advancement and promotion in Mystic Masonry is not dependent on favor; it cannot be given till it ha...
MAX HEINDEL

Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It's the impetus for c...
MAX CARVER

A personal brand is relevant to people who sell or create something relevant to who they are as a pe...
TUCKER MAX

I've come to learn that what really matters is the relationship, the quality of the relationship...
TUCKER MAX

My writing is authentic, and whatever happens in my life is what I write about.
TUCKER MAX

I was not developmentally disabled, but didn't mature at the same rate other kids did.
TUCKER MAX

I always laugh when people call me a misogynist. I... love women! Everything I do is to impress wome...
TUCKER MAX

Usually, whatever people's particular political leaning is, they either think I'm just like ...
TUCKER MAX

Social media for the majority of companies is not about helping customers or improving products.
TUCKER MAX

At some point in their life, everyone thinks they should go to law school. You may in fact think you...
TUCKER MAX

If you don't have a job right now, and you have a computer and a basic intelligence level, I gua...
TUCKER MAX

Think about it: If you don't have any actual, tangible skills, then how can you do anything? You...
TUCKER MAX

If you like to argue just for the sake of being contentious, you shouldn't pick a job based on t...
TUCKER MAX

When I give speeches at college, I don't tell stories, I talk about what it is to live your drea...
TUCKER MAX

Helping reproductive services doesn't just help women in isolation. It helps men just as much.
TUCKER MAX

The narcissist act is not an act. I actually am a narcissist, very much so. My world revolves around...
TUCKER MAX

No one has probably helped me more with my narcissism than my dog.
TUCKER MAX

Make no mistake about it: Law school is not a bastion of intellectual discourse.
TUCKER MAX

Books are so cheap and easy to get that people don't bother stealing them, which is the essentia...
TUCKER MAX

No one wants to read a story where I saw a cute puppy on the street and I petted it. I mean, that...
TUCKER MAX

There aren't a whole lot of people in culture that are unapologetically masculine.
TUCKER MAX

You will be at your best forever, Even now you have good moments. Occasional glimpses of your heavenly self. When you change your baby's diaper, forgive your boss's temper, tolerate your spouse's moodiness, you display traces of saintliness.

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You will be at your best forever, Even now you have good moments. Occasional glimpses of your heavenly self. When you change your baby's diaper, forgive your boss's temper, tolerate your spouse's moodiness, you display traces of saintliness.

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